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I do not fear that "future generations will not read novels," etc. It is probably a complete misunderstanding to conceive of serious art in categories of production, market, readers, supply and demand(...)art is not the fabrication of stories for readers but a spiritual cohabitation, something so tense and so separate from science, even contradictory to it, that there can be no competition between them. If someone fine, dignified, prolific, brilliant (this is how one ought to speak of artists this is the language art demands) is born in the future, if someone unique and unrepeatable is born, a Bach, a Rembrandt, then he will win people over, charm and seduce them...


Witold Gombrowicz


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In the story "Pamiętnik z okresu dojrzewania" the author above all engages in paradoxes which control the entrance of the individual into the social world and also the repressed passions which rule human behaviour. Moreover his dramas were repeatedly staged in the most important theatres in the whole world by the prominent directors such as Jorge Lavelli Alf Sjöberg Ingmar Bergman along with Jerzy Jarocki and Jerzy Grzegorzewski in Poland. ) In 1911 his family moved to Warsaw.

His works are characterized by deep psychological analysis a certain sense of paradox and an absurd anti-nationalist flavor. He gained fame only during the last years of his life but is now considered one of the foremost figures of Polish literature.

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